I agree that this is meaningless. However, there are two times available to you in a CICS transaction. The CPU used and the elapsed time. Now, if you divide the CPU used by the elapsed, you will get a measure of "how hard" this particular transaction can drive the machine. IMO, any transaction that can drive the machine over 50% is likely either coded poorly or is doing some sort of "heavy computation" on its data. As an example, back a few years ago, before it was possible to use the STRING and UNSTRING verbs in COBOL in CICS and also before COBOL had "reference modification", we had a transaction which had to split its input into blank delimited "words". This transaction was a CPU burner do to "out of line" PERFORMs which had to use arrays to inspect each character.
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